Re: babel perl issue

[Bastien <bzg@altern.org>]

Hi Eric,

Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

> This is refactoring not bug fixing.  The most important impact is that
> this will provide for simpler requires by the files implementing support
> for particular languages.  Rather than having to do piecemeal requires
> of those portions of the Babel infrastructure which may be needed
> locally they can simple (require 'ob) and bring in all of the Babel
> support as a single unit.

I agree with the simplification if it does not involved creating
ob-core.el and ob-customs.el.  Merging ob.el and ob-tangle.el (and
perhaps ob-eval.el and ob-comint.el) is a good simplification option
IMHO.

> Prior to this change there are language specific files which are using
> tangle defcustoms which have not been required and thus are not in
> scope.

Got it.

> Finally this consolidates Babel defcustoms into ob.el where they will be
> more immediately brought into scope, and are more easily maintained.

Yes, if you merge the files; otherwise, I'd stick to the namespace 
rule: defcustoms belong where their namespace indicate they belong.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien